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Holiness to the Lord: A Guide to the Exposition of the Book of Leviticus is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Holiness to the Lord, Allen P. Ross has shouldered the often daunting task of gleaning from the Book of Leviticus more than just messages on tithing or Sabbath-keeping. Many expositors miss the wealth of information on the early Hebrew system of religion which this important book of scripture represents. This formidable text has been made manageable for both scholars and laymen, enabling...

In the Bible, Leviticus is the third book of the law of Moses; but it is written or presented as direct revelation more than the other books of the Pentateuch are. The bulk of the book consists of divine speeches that Moses delivered to the people (Hartley, xxx). This emphasis is introduced with the very first word of the book, wayyiqrāʾ (“and he called”), which also serves as the Hebrew title of the book. An expanded form of the title would be “and [the LORD] called [to Moses, saying].”4 In other
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